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The Price of Plenty: How Beef Changed America

Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.
by Joshua Specht via The Guardian on May 7, 2019

Like Jackie Robinson, Baseball Should Honor Curt Flood's Sacrifice

Fifty years ago, Flood took a stand and paved the way for free agency.
by William C. Rhoden via Andscape on April 15, 2019

Thomas J. Sugrue on History’s Hard Lessons

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.
by Destin Jenkins, Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on April 2, 2019
Hand-drawn map proposing the Appalachian Trail

An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.
by Benton MacKaye, Garrett Dash Nelson via Places Journal on April 1, 2019

Punjabi Convoy

A history of trucking in America, told through the music that has kept truckers company on the lonely road.
by Nick Murray via Popula on March 25, 2019
United Mine Workers on a picket line.

The Past and Future of the American Strike

A new book tells the history of America through its workplace struggles.
by Richard Yeselson via The Nation on March 21, 2019

Let’s Recognize the African-American Prisoners Who Helped Build America

Without them, the economy of the American South would never would have recovered after the Civil War.
by Talitha L. LeFlouria via The Root on February 26, 2019

Black Farmworkers in the Central Valley: Escaping Jim Crow for a Subtler Kind of Racism

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."
by Alexandra Hall via KQED on February 22, 2019

A Brief History of Presidential Lethargy

How much do we expect our presidents to rest?
by Stacy A. Cordery via The Conversation on February 15, 2019

How the U.S. Weaponized the Border Wall

The borderlands have “been transformed into a vast graveyard of the missing.”
by Greg Grandin via The Intercept on February 10, 2019
A woman speaks at a union rally.
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America Once Led the Push For Parental Rights. Now It Lags Behind.

It’s time to adopt paid parental leave as a right.
by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Mona L. Siegel via Made By History on February 8, 2019

How Air Traffic Controllers Helped End the Shutdown — and Changed History

It shows that labor still has some power, at least when public opinion is on its side.
by Joseph A. McCartin via Washington Post on January 26, 2019

Before Black Lung, the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster Killed Hundreds

A forgotten example of the dangers of silica, the toxic dust behind the modern black lung epidemic in Appalachia.
by Adelina Lancianese via NPR on January 20, 2019
Row of suburban houses.

The Myth of "We Don't Build Houses Like We Used To"

The comment lament misses crucial context about the style trends and building materials of the past.
by Kate Wagner via Curbed on January 16, 2019
Border patrol guarding a group of men sitting on the ground.
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A Wall Can’t Solve America’s Addiction to Undocumented Immigration

For more than 70 years, undocumented immigrants have shaped the American economy.
by Julia G. Young via Made By History on January 9, 2019
Trump looks at border wall construction prototypes.
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The Hole in Donald Trump’s Wall

As long as Americans continue to flood into Mexico, the wall will do little to deter crossings.
by Tore C. Olsson via Made By History on January 9, 2019
Detail from the newsletter "Interrupt," featuring a raised fist and the slogan "Computers serve the landlords."

Mainframe, Interrupted

A member of the 1960s-70s collective Computer People for Peace talks about the early days of tech worker organizing.
by Joan Greenbaum, Jen Kagan via Logic on January 7, 2019

Make Ford Great Again

For now, yesterday is where the money is.
by Daniel Albert via n+1 on December 2, 2018

Prophets of War

Telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War.
by Jason Phillips via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 23, 2018

An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption

Three recent books challenge the tech industry's myths of self-reliance and prescience.
by Nitasha Tiku via Wired on October 22, 2018

America’s Missing Labor Party

The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by David Sessions via The New Republic on October 2, 2018

The Origins of Prison Slavery

How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.
by Shane Bauer via Slate on October 2, 2018
Rail yard in Chicago.

Jack Delano's Color Photos of Chicago's Rail Yards in the 1940s

A handful of images from Chicago as it was some 75 years ago.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on October 2, 2018

Green and Pleasant Land

A review of four books that all deal with the long-lasting contradictions between the mythology and reality of farming.
by Verlyn Klinkenborg via New York Review of Books on September 26, 2018

The Environmental Roots of Jim Crow in Coastal South Carolina

On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.
by Caroline Grego via Environmental History Now on September 13, 2018
Cartoon depiction of a labor strike

“Labor Day” Isn’t Labor Day

The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?
by Sam Wallman via The Nib on September 3, 2018
Apple Macintosh computers sit on double decked manufacturing lines, 1984
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The Undocumented Workers who Built Silicon Valley

Undocumented workers have been foundational to the rise of our most vaunted hub of innovative capitalism.
by Louis Hyman via Made By History on August 30, 2018
W.E.B. Du Bois

The Legacy of Black Reconstruction

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.
by Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 27, 2018

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers

When the blazing sun came up on the teenagers' first day of work, "everyone looked at each other, and said, 'What did we do?'"
by Gustavo Arellano via NPR on August 23, 2018

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal via Boston Review on August 17, 2018
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